Item category 2: Picture books

This is an action-packed book to occupy and amuse children during the weeks leading up to Christmas and beyond. There are craft pages explaining how to make cards, festive decorations and Christmas cookies.

Ideal as a first read-alone text, this book will help to explain parental breakup to children. Binch's characters are realistic and easy for children to identify with.

This lift-the-flap book contains cheerful illustrations, large type and simple stories to delight and entertain young children. In this story, discover the present that Santa has brought for Spot.

Jonathon isn't very good at getting his own way, until a hairy monster called Temper Temper arrives and shows him how to perform the most amazing tantrums. Together they scowl and howl and rant and rage, until his family decide they've had enough.

The nursery rhyme of "There was an Old Lady", produced in large format and die cut for use in whole class situations in nursery schools and playgroups.

Even worse than suffering a disappointing school holiday is having to write about it on the first day back in school. After all the disasters of her holiday, Rosie finds that she has lots to write about.

Winnie the witch lived in a black house. Everything inside was black - black carpets, black chairs, a black bed. She even had a black bath. The only problem with black was that Winnie couldn't see her cat. Until one day she decides to use some magic!

In this picture book designed specially for toddlers, Freddie and Bear go on holiday in a plane. They get a window seat and watch the ground getting smaller and smaller, listen to the captain, get a meal from the stewardess and feel their ears pop.

This is a large format paperback edition of one of Anthony Browne's most popular picture books, Gorilla. It is the classic tale of a lonely girl, a friendly gorilla and their amazing night out.

My mum loves spots, spotty clothes, spotty wallpaper, spotty games like dominoes. My dad loves stripes, stripy suits and stripy ties, stripy humbug sweets. But they think I'm the funny one.